Conform to the conditions of a loan or don't bother trying to get our money.
The fast majority of their debts have already been paid
by us, without any certainty that they're willing to fundamentally change their corrupt system, there's no point continuing.
If you burn yourself you should sit on the blisters. At the moment, we're sitting on their blisters for them and that's bad enough as is. Strangely, they hate us for it, instead of hating their own actions and those of the politicians they elected for making promises that cost billions of euros in tax payer money over the past couple decades - and probably before that.
The coming weeks, to make sure people want to vote for them with the new elections on the way, tax collection letters aren't sent at all...
Does the Greek population suffer from this? Yes. Definitely. But do you honestly think the Greeks would or even could have sent money to the north had it been the other way around? Somehow I highly doubt it.
The stories you hear from enterpreneurs, politicians and other civilians that went to live or work there about the corruption are simply maddening. The corruption is huge and spreads through every class of the populace. Yesterday for instance a reporter from RTL 7 (business channel) talked on a debate show something she was told by the someone from Albert Heijn (one of the larger dutch supermarket companies).
Apparently, when they introduced the beertender to Greece with a party (like they had done all over Europe) they had decided to give every person on the party (all elite) a free voucher for
one beertender.
After a short while into the party he suddenly wondered where half the people had gone. He went outside to check and found they were loading multiple beertenders into their luxury cars...
Members of the dutch parliament that visited Greece's parliament last year to see how things were going, told he following debate took place in the parliament of Greece:
There had been some questions raised for the minister responsible on why public servants that year got coupons to go on a government paid holiday on other islands than their own.
Now the question wasn't "why did they get one in the first place", no, the question was "Why on another island than their own, shouldn't they be free to choose where they want to go?". The answer provided by the minister was: "Because we would like them to visit some other islands in our beautiful archipelago for a change. But don't worry, any ferry or flight costs will be paid for them of course."
You can imagine that neither the question nor comment went down well...
(source in dutch)
We're talking about hundreds of thousands civil servants here, though apparently the exact amount is unknown to even the Greek government...
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